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Maui sues cell carriers over wildfire warning alerts that were never received during service outages

Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summers deadly wildfire

3 May 2024 9:20 am
Indianapolis police fatally shoot male who pointed a weapon at others and threatened them

Indianapolis police have fatally shot a male pointing a weapon at other people and threatening to shoot them

3 May 2024 8:15 am
Mississippi Republicans revive bill to regulate transgender bathroom use in schools

Mississippis Republican-led Legislature has completed a last-ditch effort to revive a bill to regulate transgender peoples use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings

3 May 2024 8:08 am
Police detain driver who accelerated toward protesters at Portland State University in Oregon

Police say they have detained the driver of a white Toyota Camry who briefly accelerated toward a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Portland State University in Oregon

3 May 2024 7:36 am
A former Milwaukee election official is fined $3,000 for obtaining fake absentee ballots

A former Milwaukee election official convicted of misconduct in office and fraud for obtaining fake absentee ballots has been sentenced to one year of probation and fined $3,000

3 May 2024 7:12 am
Global Citizen NOW urges investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and youth outreach

Global Citizen NOW says it wants 2024 conference attendees to invest long-term in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increase outreach to young changemakers

3 May 2024 6:00 am
The unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza hasn't been seen since World War II, the UN says

The United Nations says the world hasnt seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes devastated in Israels bombing and ground offensive if the confl...

3 May 2024 6:00 am
Berkshire Hathaway board feels sure Greg Abel is the man to eventually replace Warren Buffett

Everyone knows Warren Buffetts successor wont be able to match the legendary investor

3 May 2024 6:00 am
South Carolina Senate approves ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

The South Carolina Senate has approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

3 May 2024 5:36 am
Two months to count election ballots? California's long tallies turn election day into weeks, months

Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest

3 May 2024 5:36 am
Police officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Columbia University building, Manhattan prosecutors say

Police officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Columbia University building, Manhattan prosecutors say

3 May 2024 5:28 am
Judge grants autopsy rules requested by widow of Mississippi man found dead after vanishing

A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husbands body

3 May 2024 3:12 am
Arizonas Democratic governor signs bill to repeal the states 1864 ban on nearly all abortions

Arizonas Democratic governor signs bill to repeal the states 1864 ban on nearly all abortions

3 May 2024 1:51 am
Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners

A judge declared a mistrial after a jury said it was deadlocked and couldn't reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago

3 May 2024 1:28 am
Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison

A Georgia business owner who repeatedly attacked law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison

3 May 2024 1:28 am
The first wrongful-death trial in Travis Scott concert deaths has been delayed

The start of the first civil trial stemming from the deadly crowd surge at the 2021 Astroworld festival in Texas has been delayed

3 May 2024 1:28 am
North Carolina congressional candidate suspends campaign days before primary runoff

A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a central North Carolina congressional seat has announced shes suspending her campaign days before her primary runoff election

3 May 2024 1:28 am
Alabama court authorizes second nitrogen execution

Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas

3 May 2024 1:28 am
Mississippi high court declines to rule on questions of public funds going to private schools

The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether the state is violating its own constitution with a program that would spend $10 million public money on infrastructure grants for private schools

3 May 2024 1:20 am
Today's campus protests aren't nearly as big or violent as those last century -- at least, not yet

Although it might be tempting to compare the U.S. campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement of a half century ago, experts say that would be an overreaction at this point

3 May 2024 1:20 am
Georgia governor signs law adding regulations for production and sale of herbal supplement kratom

Georgias governor has signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of products containing kratom, a plant-based supplement

3 May 2024 1:04 am
Transgender Tennesseans want state's refusal to amend birth certificates declared unconstitutional

The fate of a decades-old Tennessee policy that does not allow transgender people to change the sex designation on their birth certificates is in the hands of a federal appeals court

3 May 2024 12:56 am
IRS acts to address wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and other filers

The IRS says it's taken steps to address a wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and others filers

3 May 2024 12:56 am
Heavy rain leads to flooding and closed roads in southeast Texas

Torrential rain has caused flooding in southeastern Texas

3 May 2024 12:56 am
Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners against military contractor

Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners against military contractor

3 May 2024 12:39 am
Dentist accused of killing wife tried to plant letters suggesting she was suicidal, police say

A Colorado dentist charged with killing his wife by putting poison in her protein shakes is now accused of asking a fellow jail inmate to plant letters to make it look like his wife was suicidal

3 May 2024 12:32 am
Exxon Mobil deal with Pioneer gets FTC nod, but former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield barred from board

Exxon Mobils $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources has received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but the former CEO of Pioneer was barred from joining the new companys board of directors

3 May 2024 12:23 am
What defines a heartbeat? Judge hears arguments in South Carolina abortion case

South Carolinas ban on abortions after roughly six weeks is back in court and centered on the definition of fetal heartbeat

3 May 2024 12:09 am
A North Carolina man is charged with mailing an antisemitic threat to a Georgia rabbi

A North Carolina man is charged with mailing an antisemitic threat to a rabbi in Georgia

2 May 2024 11:52 pm
Tiger Woods gets special exemption to US Open at Pinehurst

Tiger Woods is headed to the U.S. Open after receiving the first of what likely will be many special exemptions

2 May 2024 11:44 pm
At least 2,000 people have been arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses since April 18, AP tally shows

At least 2,000 people have been arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses since April 18, AP tally shows

2 May 2024 11:43 pm
Pennsylvania man convicted of kidnapping a woman, driving her to a Nevada desert and suffocating her

A Pennsylvania man who authorities say killed his girlfriend in a Nevada desert has been convicted

2 May 2024 11:31 pm
Alabama lawmakers approve legislation to ensure President Biden is on the November ballot

Alabama lawmakers gave final approval to legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the states November ballot

2 May 2024 11:19 pm
Man arrested in fatal shooting of Chicago police officer who was heading home from work

Police say a 22-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was slain while off-duty and heading home from work

2 May 2024 11:12 pm
Kentucky judge declines, for now, to lift ban on executions

A Kentucky judge won't remove an injunction that has blocked executions in the state for more than a decade

2 May 2024 10:56 pm
North Carolina bill ordering sheriffs to help immigration agents closer to law with Senate vote

A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal immigration requests to hold an inmate suspected of being in the country illegally passed the state Senate

2 May 2024 10:40 pm
A fiery crash involving tanker carrying gas closes I-95 in Connecticut in both directions

Both sides of I-95, the East Coasts main north-south highway, have been shut down in southwestern Connecticut

2 May 2024 9:28 pm
AI use by businesses is small but growing rapidly, led by IT sector and firms in Colorado and DC

The rate of businesses in the U.S. using AI is still relatively small but growing rapidly

2 May 2024 9:20 pm
The Latest | Minnesota students to address regents about divesting from Israel

Arrests continue on campuses around the U.S. as police dismantle camps of students protesting Israel's war in Gaza

2 May 2024 9:20 pm
Texas school board accepts separation agreement with superintendent over student banned from musical

A Texas school board has accepted a voluntary separation agreement with its superintendent who was suspended after removing a transgender student from a role in the musical Oklahoma!

2 May 2024 9:20 pm
The Latest | With no immediate ruling on sanctions, testimony resumes in Trump's hush money case

Lawyer Keith Davidson has returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial following a contempt hearing over whether Trump has again violated his gag order

2 May 2024 9:12 pm
Biden expands 2 national monuments in California significant to tribal nations

President Joe Biden has expanded two culturally significant California landscapes: the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in Southern California and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Northern California

2 May 2024 9:12 pm
Biden says campus protests haven't prompted him to rethink Mideast policies, and he opposes sending in National Guard

Biden says campus protests haven't prompted him to rethink Mideast policies, and he opposes sending in National Guard

2 May 2024 9:12 pm
Biden says dissent must never lead to disorder as he condemns campus pro-Palestinian protests that have turned violent

Biden says dissent must never lead to disorder as he condemns campus pro-Palestinian protests that have turned violent

2 May 2024 8:55 pm
Senators want limits on the government's use of facial recognition technology for airport screening

A bipartisan group of senators wants restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration

2 May 2024 8:40 pm
Police in Fort Worth say four children are among six people wounded in a drive-by shooting

Police in Fort Worth, Texas, says four children are among six people wounded in a drive-by shooting at an apartment complex that Police Chief Neil Noakes called stupid

2 May 2024 8:08 pm
Asian American Literature Festival that was canceled by the Smithsonian in 2023 to be revived

A festival celebrating Asian American literary works that was suddenly canceled last year by the Smithsonian Institution is getting resurrected

2 May 2024 7:52 pm
Medicaid expansion discussions could fall apart in Republican-led Mississippi

The first serious effort by Mississippis Republican-led Legislature to expand Medicaid could be crumbling

2 May 2024 7:12 pm
Body of 5th missing worker found more than a month after Baltimore bridge collapse, officials say

Authorities say they've recovered the body of a fifth person who was missing after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge more than a month ago

2 May 2024 5:29 pm
Biden adds stop to North Carolina trip to visit with families of fallen law enforcement officers

President Joe Biden is detouring to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job

2 May 2024 3:20 pm